Creating your own Cigar Leaf blends?

[badbriar]

I'm experimenting with using a bit of my preferred premium cigars to add real quality cigar leaf to various pipe blends and have had good success thus far. I find that it only takes a small amount to add that unique taste. Using various brands and styles give noticeably different results. My preference is to use darker, stronger maduro and oscuro.
Anyone else have good results doing this?

 

[AroEnglish]

I haven't tried that but it sounds interesting. Do you use specific parts of the cigar (wrapper, binder, filler) more than others or do you just cut a nub off and use it all?

 

[Sigmund]

Yes, less is more. One of my favs is HU White Horses. It has a nice but still subtle bit of cigar leaf. Cigar leaf plays nice with perique.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

I used to play around with c&d’s chopped cigar leaf, blending it burley and various other things, but I never really liked it.

Right now tho I’m smoking a bowl of WLT Paraguay Flojo Ligero straight and loving it. I plan to try blending it soon but for me it’s definitely one that can be appreciated on its own in a pipe

 

[ThomasS]

I've started following (If I remember correctly) Chasing Ember's suggestion - I save my end-caps and cut the wrappers (and sometimes some of the binder if it is hard to get them separated) off of the stubs of my nicer cigars, leaving the soggy and charred filler to be thrown away. Then I chop the wrappers and endcaps up. This has ended up with a jar of nice maduro chunks that blends well with a number of things and I've been enjoying that.

 

[kcghost]

Looks like you guys are pretty serious about your search for fool's gold.

 

[badbriar]

I just take a fresh, unsmoked cigar of choice and take a small coin (1/8") off of the foot.
You can choose seriously quality cigars - whatever you like this way.
Personally, I like to use cigars like Liga 9, T52, Oliva V Melanio, Foundation Tabernacle, LFD etc.
These are all dark, stout, and full flavored. Little dab'll do ya!

 

[proteus]

I grab some CT shade leaf grown in CT and layer that with VA and St James Perique leaf when building my plugs. The leafs are big.